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Tenderloin Housing Clinic: $640M flowed from SF since 2007, $107M reached landlords, $533M kept by the middle layer while people sleep on the street GovGrift illustration · cumulative city payments vs. landlord pass-through, FY2007–FY2026

How Tenderloin Housing Clinic kept $533M of $640M in SF master-lease money

Since 2007, San Francisco has paid Tenderloin Housing Clinic about $640M to operate SRO master-leases. Roughly $107M reached the actual landlords. We traced the $500M+ gap, the related-party network behind 23 of 24 buildings, and the audit holes that let the spread stay invisible.

GG-2026-001 · GovGrift Research
Investigation Board · GG-2026-001 Live
THC Tenderloin H.C. 22 LEASES Master contracts REL. LLCs Real-estate ties PAC TIES FPPC filings $533M KEPT since FY2007 47 DOCS cited · hashed

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Tenderloin Housing Clinic: city paid $640M, $533M kept by the middle layer while people sleep on the street GG-2026-001

THC master leases — $533M kept of $640M

THC · SF Housing

Urban Alchemy / Mid-Market Foundation: $800M flowed through a zero-employee shell, 82% concentrated in one vendor GG-2026-002

Urban Alchemy mid-market $800M network

Urban Alchemy / Mid-Market Fdn. · SF Homelessness

MOHCD: $2.9B in affordable-housing money, Plaza East still 'pre-construction' since 1995 GG-2026-003

MOHCD affordable-housing pipeline $2.9B

MOHCD · SF Housing

DCYF: $821M signed out, $484M (half) to recipients with zero monitoring records GG-2026-004

DCYF monitoring vacuum $484M unwatched

DCYF · SF Youth

SF Public Works: $30M+ paid to federally indicted contractors after their arrests GG-2026-006

Public Works paid contractors $30M+ after arrest

SF Public Works · SF Infrastructure

SFMTA: $104.5M paid to 'Vortech Industries' — a 6-employee Daly City LLC formed in 2024 with $810K annual revenue GG-2026-007

SFMTA Vortech vendor $104.5M mismatch

SFMTA · SF Transit

SF COVID emergency contracts: $925M in, $564M (60.9%) bypassed competitive bidding via emergency procurement GG-2026-008

SF COVID emergency contracts $564M no-bid

SF Controller · SF Emergency

SF Reentry: $50.97M sole-source contract with 55% rearrest rate vs the Sheriff's claimed under-10% GG-2025-024

SF Reentry sole-source $50.97M, 55% rearrest

SF Pretrial Diversion / APD · SF Justice

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The GovGrift forensic pipeline. Four faceless silhouettes at an assembly line: Scout pulls the lead, Collector pulls the primary records, Analyst marks contradictions, Skeptic stamps VERIFY. Behind them, an investigative pinboard wall connects sources with red string under a faded SF City Hall dome.
01

Scout

Finds the lead. News stories, social posts, public meeting notes, anything in plain sight that doesn't add up.

02

Collector

Pulls the actual records. Tax filings, state business records, Medicare data, city contracts, court documents.

03

Analyst

Lines the records up and flags the contradictions. Vendors paid while the state lists them as inactive. City money that never shows up on the tax filing. Two vendor names sharing one tax ID.

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